Public Policy in Israel Perspectives and Practices

by Korn, Dani; Dror, Yehezkel; Barzilai, Gad; Bitton-Zahori, Miri; Don-Yehiya, Eliezer; Doron, Gideon; Friedberg, Asher; Gidron, Benjamin; Gopher, Avi; Greenberg, Raphael; Herzog, Zeev; Katan, Joseph; Katz, Hagai; Katz, Yitzhak; Kemp, Adriana; Kfir, Aharon;

• ISBN13: 9780739110577
• ISBN10: 0739110578
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-15
• Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS

Summary

In a nation that lacks consensus on the very nature of the state, and where policy making is heavily controlled by partisan politics, improved policy implementation capabilities are crucial for the very survival of Israeli society. Public Policy in Israel presents a framework for understanding this country's fractured decision-making process and a blueprint for the radical reform of its policy-making system.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2005 Edition: The "Strange Mix": Challenging Policy-Making in Israel"	ix
Foreword: Policy-Making as Critical Choices	xi
Yehezkel Dror
Indtroduction: Policy-Making in Israel: The Survival Imperative	1	(8)
Dani Korn
Part One: Critical Issues
1 Public Policy and Management of Major Political Cleavages	9	(22)
Eliezer Don-Yehiya
2 Policy-Making and Immigrant Absorption	31	(20)
Asher Friedberg and Aharon Kfir
3 The Mismanagement of Israel's Water Resources: A Study of Administrative Myopia in Public Policy	51	(20)
Martin Sherman and Dan Zaslavsky
Part Two: Players, Rules, and Practice
4 Justices as Policy-Makers	71	(8)
Gad Barzilai
5 Policy Change in Government Coalitions and Party Politics	79	(30)
Efraim Torgovnik
7 The Six-Day War and Its Aftermath: A Case for Professionalism in Policy Planning	109	(14)
Arye Naor
Part Three: Public and Private Domain
8 Privatization Policy: 50 Years of Low-Intensity Conflicts	123	(12)
Yitzhak Katz and Miri Bitton-Zahori
9 Unintentional yet Unmistakable: The De Facto Public Policy toward the Third Sector	135
Benjamin Gidron and Hagai Katz
Part Four: Specific Issues
10 State and Nonstate Actors: A Multilayered Analysis of Labor Migration Policy	155	(20)
Rebeca Raijman and Adriana Kemp
11 Policy-Making in the Personal Social Services	175	(16)
Joseph Katan
12 Archaeological Public Policy	191	(14)
Avi Gopher, Raphael Greenberg, and Zeev Herzog
15 Cracks in the Mirror of Military Hegemony: The Courts and the Media as Agents of Civil Society	205	(20)
Udi Lebel
Index	225	(6)
About the Contributors	231